I recently celebrated my 31st birthday, which, in today’s world, qualifies me to begin sentences with the phrase “back in my day.” I admit this...
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From Potential to Performance
Effective talent strategy focuses on converting potential to performance. Learn about how personality assessment supports the entire employee lifecycle.
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Authenticity at work might be sabotaging your career. Learn how strategic self-awareness, not authenticity, drives professional success.
Read MoreHow Your Greatest Strength Can Become Your Greatest Weakness
What is your greatest weakness? It might actually be your greatest strength, just overused. Learn how to manage the dark side of personality.
Read MoreThe Problem with Interviewing
Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that “the only difference between a job interview and a blind date is that there is a slightly higher chance you'll be...
Giving Thanks and Giving Back
If you couldn’t already tell by overt advertising and buzz around Black Friday deals, it appears the holiday season is upon us. My favorite...
High Stakes Hiring
Like many people, my coworker is afraid of flying. We encourage him to take sleeping pills and try to distract him with entertaining stories...
Movember: A Proud 30 Days with a Prostache
November 1 was the official kick off to the month of Movember. For those unaware of the meaning behind this portmanteau, simply...
Scouting Out Future Leaders
Goal setting; sound decision making; problem solving; networking, embracing diversity…these factors have more in common than their presence across...
No Bull, Just the Basics
As unpatriotic as it sounds: I am not a huge fan of the presidential election cycle. It’s not that I don’t value the power I’m given to choose the...
Chasing Shadows to the C Suite
At the recent Conference Board in Chicago, a number of talent management professionals and consulting experts gave presentations on next-generation...
Chasing Your Shadow: Leadership Brand and Derailment
I recently listened to a talk given by Greg Barnett, one of Hogan’s veteran consultants and our Director of Product Development, about the...
Five Essentials of Execution
1. The agenda to be executed should make sense to those who must execute it — people should be persuaded that the agenda is worth following.
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Self-Deception and Evolutionary Theory
I have been interested in the problem of self-deception (doing things for reasons that we don’t properly understand or...
How Attractive Is Your Personality? (Part II)
In August I wrote about some interesting findings about how our personality makes us more or less physically attractive to others (
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